“The police give the impression they’re more concerned with beleaguered citizens “taking the law into their own hands” than actually doing anything about criminals breaking the law in the first place.

Take this grotesque example from Dorking in Surrey.

For the past seven years people living near Netley Heath, a local beauty spot, have been plagued by illegal all-night raves fuelled by drink and drugs.

Up to 600 revellers descend on the area at weekends, disturbing the peace for seven miles around.

They leave behind them broken bottles, used condoms and other assorted debris.

Dogs have had their paws lacerated and pheasant pens have been vandalised.

For seven years -yes, SEVEN YEARS -gamekeeper Jessica Allinson has been pleading with the police to put a stop to the raves.

“It was always the same excuse, ‘We don’t have the manpower to deal with it’ was all we heard. No one involved with the raves has ever been charged,” said Jessica.

Finally, she cracked. Jessica, a 47-year-old mother-of-four, and her 28-year old assistant, Alex Szyndel, confronted the illegal ravers and unloaded their shotguns into the loudspeakers blasting deafening music across the countryside.

As they retreated to their Land Rover, they found themselves up against a snarling mob of 100 partygoers, many of them out of their heads on drugs. Jessica was punched and kicked. One man threatened to kill her.

Terrified, they fired into the air and shot out the tyres of cars to stop the mob giving chase.

“There was a police helicopter hovering overhead, four patrol cars on the drive and two motorcycles. There were 15 officers around my house, yet we could never raise a single one to turn out when we complained about the illegal raves in the past,” she said.

Jessica and Alex were arrested, stripped of their clothes and kept in the cells at Guildford nick from 8am to early evening before being bailed.

It was seven months before they were told they were being charged with possessing firearms with intent to cause fear of violence and criminal damage.

To cut a long story short, on Friday Jessica and Alex were sentenced to three months in prison.

The judge, John Bull QC, admitted they had suffered extreme provocation and highlighted the lack of police response. But that didn’t stop him jailing them.

This is what he could have done. He could have refused to send them to prison. He could have given them a conditional discharge or a suspended sentence.

He could have ordered the Chief Constable of Surrey to appear before the court and explain why his force had refused to deal with a drunken, drug-fuelled mob breaking the law for SEVEN YEARS.

He could have asked the Chief Constable also to explain why, when he had “no resources” to deal with illegal raves, he had no difficulty summoning up 15 officers, four patrol cars and a helicopter to arrest a mother-of-four in her own home.

He might have asked the Chief Constable and every other copper involved in this wicked persecution of two decent people how they manage to sleep at night.

Have they no shame?

But he wouldn’t. He might be John Bull by name but John Bull by nature, he ain’t.

If Judge Bull ever wants to find himself sitting at the Bailey, then he’ll have to kow-tow to the Wicked Witch, Cheerful Charlie Falconer and the rest of the Left-wing establishment in the Home Office and the Lord Chancellor’s department.

And that means going soft on criminals while being tough on the victims of crime.

Same goes for the Chief Constable of Surrey and any of his officers with one eye on promotion.

There’s nothing our rulers enjoy more than banging up a decent, hard-working taxpayer, especially if they’re suspected of voting Tory.

What kind of country is it in which 600 drug-crazed ravers can break the law, cause criminal damage, trespass, make people’s lives a misery for seven years without attracting the attention of the police -yet a distressed 47-year-old mother-of-four is sent down for three months for having the audacity to fight back?

If the Chief Constable had a shred of decency, he would resign over his disgraceful dereliction of duty.

Does the judge really think justice has been served in this case? I’d rather sell the Big Issue in The Strand than send Jessica Allinson to jail.

It has become fashionable to say the police and the courts are no longer on our side, that at best they are neutral between criminals and victims.

I’ve said it myself, time and again.

But that’s not true any longer. They are not neutral -they are on the side of the criminal against the victim.

Only yesterday we read of a magistrate who has been forced to resign because she dared to express the opinion that burglars should face an automatic jail sentence.

This comes just days after the Home Secretary refused to change the law to allow us properly to defend ourselves against burglars without fear of prosecution.

Meanwhile, a terrified mother-of-four rots in jail while criminals laugh in our faces and the police pat themselves on the backs over a job well done. “

I think Jessica Allinson was fucking well right to do this. Parties are all well and good, but not when they result in that kind of damage to people’s homes and lives. Now J.A is in jail, think about what her children and family must be going through, just because of a bunch of selfish fuckers who are just too much of fucking pikies to buy their own plot of land. I think she should have been given a medal and award ceremony, for doing what the fucking coward police wouldn’t!

its patantly obvious that thsi person knows nothing outside of what they’ve heard in the press.

a) the damage done to the area was minimal, and considering it’s used by the local kids as aplayground, i think that where the alleged “used jonnies” comes from

b) that site had only been partied four times in seven years, hardly the “constant harrasment” bullshit that was touted in the press.

c) the police in that area have totally shut down rave activity in that area. there have been two serious incidents of agrassion and violence on their part, not to mention their dedicated rave control. i know of at least three rigs that have been nicked in the area in the last year.

d) the time line of events that littlejohn discribes is absolutely contrived to fuck. there was no chase, the violence was started and perpetuated by the toffs, and the shooting of the car tyres happened at a different time and place to the main confrontation…

i could go on, but you get the jist…

I agree that sending her to jail is well harsh, but it sounds a bit hollow coming from the same right wing papers that are all infavour of draconian laws to prevent social freedoms, as long as they only apllly to the poor or non-white. At the end og the day the criminal justice system in this country is a joke, and i’ve seen and heard of far worse miscarriages of justice, only they didnt happen to the landed gentry so it doesnt make the papers..

F.O.C, the crew who did the rave will be interveiwed in next weeks dorking ad.. That should help to put right deluded, The Sun beleiving wankers like alias straight.

damage to the environment and overuse of venues have always been a concern of mine (to the point where I boycotted an entire season of outdoor parties in my area as I felt these issues weren’t being addressed in the rush to hold larger events) – OTOH a woman who cares about families doesn’t normally discharge loaded firearms at another mother who is picking up her family members, whatever the circumstances.

The sentence is fairly normal for use of a firearm without actual injury – similar sentences have been handed down in other disputes of this nature, whether raves were involved or not.

She got slightly less because of the fact there was some provocation, she wasn’t aiming at people (a gamekeeper after all is supposed to be a good shot!) and that the firearm itself was licensed – The reason shooters in urban areas usually get several years is because they often have pistols, which have been illegal in this country since 1996, and there are far less legitimate reasons to have a firearm in an urban setting.

Even then I’m surprised at how lenient some sentences are, such as the bloke from So Solid crew who only got a few months for pointing a loaded revolver at a traffic warden….

However, the judge had to at least hand down a custodial sentence for the general safety of the British public. As he said in court (in a report which USE also posted but the telegraph have since expired), if a precedent is set of settling land access disputes with firearms, what is stopping those with more ruthless criminal intent from arming themselves?

Lets suppose someone at that party was a more ruthless individual who already had a 12-bore of their own, perhaps even a rifle and decided to return fire… she’d be brown bread now rather than just in HMP, her kids would be in care for years rather than months and we all know what nad things happen to kids in long-term care in England 🙁

TBH her actions were stupidity caused by fear, hate and ignorance rather than bravado – hopefully in jail she will get some re-education to help her control her anger – for her own safety!

You only ever point a loaded weapon at something or someone if it they pose an immediate and real threat to your existence, and/or you are prepared to terminate its life and/or deal with the consequences of doing so.

Its a difficult issue for society as a whole. Do we want to move towards the situation in other countries such as the USA where we have a fully armed society? (I’m not anti-guns and have got nothing against shooting for food or for sport (target practice) BTW!)

Being able to “shoot intruders on sight” might seem like a good “macho fantasy” when you are young, fit and prepared to spend much time practising at the range to defend yourself from real or imaginary “enemies” – but if you carry out that deadly threat or perhaps shoot to scare and fuck up , even if the cops don’t get you the victims family may decide to launch reprisals (and in an armed society they can get weapons to). but do you constantly want to live in a war-zone?

An old country rhyme..

“You may hit or you may miss But for ever think of this All the pheasants ever bred Don’t make up for one man dead”

also..darkside…the defence admitted to four shots, but there are two blast marks in the tops, which is head height, that were not addressed in court or admitted by the defence.

They should have been charged with attempted murder, and threatening with loss of life…

Although putting mum in jail isnt great, she very nearly got away with murder, and while im sure she’s having a shit time, she is also ridiculously lucky to be in the employ of the rich, also that she is a mum, or she’d be fucked. she is the luckiest plum in the world, and i hope she knows it

its patantly obvious that thsi person knows nothing outside of what they’ve heard in the press. d) the time line of events that littlejohn discribes is absolutely contrived to fuck. there was no chase, the violence was started and perpetuated by the toffs, and the shooting of the car tyres happened at a different time and place to the main confrontation…

I got the impression that any violence she did receive from the ravers was a reprisal for discharging the gun, which is fair enough!

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I agree that sending her to jail is well harsh,

not when there is a real problem with firearms in some parts of this country – both middle england and gangsters are getting armed and it could be bare armshouse if society doesn’t do something.

In my area (thames valley) the bumpkins are responsible for as many if not more shootings as the city gangsters….

Her main punishments would actually have been the loss of her license, her job, her shotgun (they aren’t cheap!) and perhaps even accommodation (usually comes with the job).

BTW gamekeepers are “lackeys” rather than landed gentry – they are no better and have no more real status than the minimum wage rentaguards found in the city who “guard'” warehouses (and these have the sense to turn a blind eye to certain activities if there isn’t too much damage)

TBH I think she wasn’t the sharpest tool in the box, the stupid cow has fucked up years of her life and caused her family disruption to defend land that wasn’t even her own property! Even the toffs didn’t stick up for her, and no one will employ her as a gamekeeper now – I don’t think you can get a firearms license back after an incident of this nature, and the landed gentry are cowards who would be equally paranoid that she may point a weapon at them if there was a master/servant dispute….

incidentally I was equally angry with the ravers who were pissing about with a replica pistol at one ridgeway rave last year – there is no place whatsoever for firearms on the British free party scene.

Actually, i wasn’t there, but i do know lots of people who went, not to mention the organisers, and the local journo who covered it. also seen quite a few court documents and spoken at length with a few who were at the courtcase….

…as for telling you my name…are you mental? with the amount of stuff i’ve admitted on here, i’d have to have my head examined…. you haven’t signed in, and you sound like the police, to be honest, or maybe an irate yokel. i personally dont want to be nicked on trumped up charges, or have some attack by the local farmers.

you can email me explaining who YOU are, and maybe i’ll enlighten you.

Wow talk about not getting your facts straight! You forgot the part where they rammed cars off the road and pointed guns in oeooles cars as they were leaving. You forgot the part where 2 young girls feard for their lives because they pointed guns into the car, one girl was dragged from the car and kicked in the stomach and a gun pounted between her eyes (she still wakes up in the night screaming that she is going to be shot in the head).

You forgot the part where they shot the speakers 6 times while people were standing right by them and trying to hide behind them. You forgot the part where they stuck a gun to a mans face and hit another over the head splitting his head open because he was trying to protect his friend from havung his head shot off. You even made some part up, that was nice 🙂

Nobody laid a finger on them, not a single hair on their head was harmed. Also they went home and called the pilice themselves. We know this because we spent the entire morning in the police station giving our statements and the police told us. I went to court the day they were sentanced, it was quite a harrowing tale. What mother in her right mind behaves in such a way KNOWING what the outcome would be? She most definitely knew the law and knew she would go to prison yet she still did it?

The parties only went on a couple of years, not 7? Where did you make that number up from? And FYI we ALWAYS cleaned up after a party and NEVER caused criminal damage to peoples property. Party people are good natured decent people who enjoy getting together with music in the outdoors 🙂

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